We drove Route 66 back to Braidwood.
Usually, we get off in Dwight, Illinois, and take Il-47 back to Woodstock, but we had a hankering to check out the newly reopened Riviera in Gardner, so continued there.
Sure love the new signage through town as they have really gotten into their Route 66 heritage (hear that B-N!!). You have signage and even shields drawn on the pavement.
North of town, we were in for a disappointment. The Riviera was not open. And it looked like it might have been closed for awhile, not just Sunday. We wondered if they weren't open as we didn't see the place mentioned in any of the Red Carpet Corridor information. We found out later that the new owner was still having problems with Gardner and that it was closed.
Let's hope they get their differences settled. This is too big of a deal to allow to continue being closed.
We were then "Forced" to drive to Braidwood and have a banana split at the Polka-Dot.
From there, it was Il-113 to Il-47 and home.
Sure Did a Lot in That Weekend. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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